Happpy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Take care of each moment

Take care of each moment and you will take care of all time.Buddha

There is no experience that exists

There is no experience that exists in this life

that does not have the power to lead you to freedom.

Amrit Desai

Movement is medicine

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau

Mend the parts of the world

Mend the parts of the world that are within your reach.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Within you there is a stillness

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

Hermann Hesse

The only impossible journey

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Tony Robbins

I don't let go of my thoughts

I don’t let go of my thoughts—I meet them with understanding, then they let go of me.
Byron Katie

Listening

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.
Karl Menninger

A talent is formed in stillness

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
Goethe

Breezes from another world

There are times when we stop.
We sit still . . . .
We listen and breezes from a
whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll

Appreciation

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Alan Cohen

Mystery

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde

Spunky

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland

Stillness

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen -
that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman

Contentment

Leave everything behind.

Feel absolute peace and

tranquility and a deep sense

of resolution called contentment.

Content with where you are,

with who you are, content with

what is from moment to moment.

Amrit Desai

Memorial Day

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

Moonlight

Moonlight is sculpture.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reflections

The perceiver is reflected in what is perceived.
Amrit Desai

Laughter

We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
What a time they have, these two
housed as they are in the same body.

Mary Oliver

Now I Can See the Moon

Barn’s burnt down —
Now I can see the moon.
Masahide (17th-century Japanese poet)

I discovered a great site where you can make your own books. It's not a self-publishing company; it's a company that lets you use their software to create and maintain ownership over your own projects. The photo above is on the cover of my book I've titled Receive Inspiration. In it I have my photographs matched with quotes, just like on this blog. I ordered a couple in hardback with a dust jacket and the quality is amazing.

Anyway, have fun making your own books. And here is the link where you can find mine. If you click on the cover, you will be able to preview the first fifteen pages. Here is the link.
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/category/Self-Improvement

Inner Peace

You may have heard of Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained brain scientist. She became especially well known when her lecture about the stroke she suffered in 1996 was posted on the internet. I just finished reading her amazing account in her book, My Stroke of Insight. What particularly struck me was how she described the feeling of deep inner peace as being located in the neurological circuitry of the right brain.

I have been writing about receptivity – receiving – as being an experience of the present rather than the suffering past or fantasy future, a bonded pair that operates as a team.

Dr. Taylor describes the feeling of peace as being in the present moment rather than something we bring from the past or project into the future and as coming from an actual location in the brain.

I love this quote from her, “Step one to experiencing inner peace is the willingness to be present in the right here, right now.” If you want to experience peace, she says, “Step to the right,” meaning the right hemisphere of your brain.

There are so many ways to describe, to explain, to illustrate the freedom of peace. Check out My Stoke of Insight for a very understandable description for the layperson about how the brain “speaks” and how you can talk to your brain.

Gratitude

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.

Dag Hammarskjold

Slow Down

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Cantor

Attraction

You are a living magnet.

What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

Brian Tracy

A New Day

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear,
unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

Barack Obama on January 20, 2009

Happy New Year!

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Jim Rohn

Interesting quote. I saw it somewhere recently and thought about the motto I created when I moved to Arizona almost two years ago. I used this motto Match Me or Raise Me as a reminder to be mindful about who I chose to spend my time with. Match Me or Raise Me just means meet me where I am or inspire me by who you are or by your accomplishments to reach higher, to do better, to excel.

Sometimes we don't fully receive the effect that people have on us or realize the consequences of time spent with those who detract in some way instead of add to our lives.

When I began this blog last January, my first entries were mostly narrative as I wrote about various topics about receiving. (You can look back by going to the menu of months on the right). Over time I added poems and quotes. I was thinking about this blog today and what I wanted to write on this first day of the new year.

In my years of exploring different facets of and deepening my understanding of receiving, I have come to understand that when I am fully present (truly a receptive state), I make better choices. And those choices reflect in how and with whom I spend my time.

As I reflect back on the last year and make plans for the year ahead, I am very happy with my top five people! I hope you are, too.